More or Les (was Bloody Plurals)

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen,

First to my puzzle. You got an almost perfect score and you taught me something I didn’t know.   The Captain of the bounty was Lieutenant William Bligh.  It was not the last Australia heard of him.

Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. The Mutiny on the Bounty occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; after being set adrift in Bounty's launch by the mutineers, Bligh and his loyal men all reached Timor alive, after a journey of 3,618 nautical miles (6,700 km; 4,160 mi).

Seventeen years after the Bounty mutiny, on 13 August 1806, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales in Australia, with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps. His actions directed against the trade resulted in the so-called Rum Rebellion, during which Bligh was placed under arrest on 26 January 1808 by the New South Wales Corps and deposed from his command, an act which the British Foreign Office later declared to be illegal. He died in Lambeth, London, on 7 December 1817.

Full marks for the film answer.  For the benefit of others:

In addition to many books and articles about the mutiny, in the 20th century five feature films were produced. The first was a 1916 silent Australian film, subsequently lost. The second, also from Australia, titled In the Wake of the Bounty (1933), was the screen debut of Errol Flynn in the role of Christian. The impact of this film was overshadowed by that of the MGM version, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), based on the popular namesake novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable as Bligh and Christian, respectively. The film's story was presented, says Dening, as "the classic conflict between tyranny and a just cause"; Laughton's portrayal became in the public mind the definitive Bligh, "a byword for sadistic tyranny".

The two subsequent major films, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) with Trevor Howard and Marlon Brando, and The Bounty (1984) with Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson, largely perpetuated this image of Bligh and that of Christian as tragic hero. The latter film added a level of homoeroticism to the Bligh–Christian relationship.

Bonus marks for the answer on the Prime Minister because I didn’t know about Chris Watson.

John Christian Watson (born John Christian Tanck; 9 April 1867 – 18 November 1941), commonly known as Chris Watson, was an Australian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of Australia. He was the first Prime Minister from the Australian Labour Party, and led the world's first Labour Party government, indeed the world's first socialist or social democratic government, at a national level. From paternal German and maternal British ancestry, he is the only Australian Prime Minister not born in a Commonwealth country.

The Prime Minister I had in mind was Malcolm Bligh Turnbull, who was defeated by Scott Morrison in a spill on 24 August 2018.  I am reading Malcolm’s Autobiography A Bigger Picture published last Monday.  It is a good read.  

Now to your puzzle.

The vessel was “. -. -.. . .- ...- --- ..- .-.”  I’ve given it to you in Morse, which seems quite appropriate.

Your plane had a bumpy landing and according to this Peter FitzSimons article: So did Cook

Must go, this morning's Standard and the 7-by-many awaits.

[Hobbit]

Hi Jack

Our early summer has vanished & it's another cold, miserable, wet day again today  Oh well it was nice while it lasted!

I thought it was clever &, as you say, very appropriate giving the answer to my bonus question in Morse code!  I had no idea that William Blyth ended up in Australia.  It's surprising what you can learn from doing these puzzles  
The Peter FitzSimons article about Cook's landing was excellent.  Painted a picture I reckon.

Not that there was any danger of it, but I was extremely glad not to be on that plane with the very bumpy landing

I like this idea of looking back in history to see what happened on this day.  I expect the novelty will wear off

My puzzle is an event that happened on this day in 1587.  It's going to be a bit tricky but I'll give it my best shot!  6 words. 8 (5/3), 3, 4, 2, 5's, 5.
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Surname of lady in picture 3.

For your bonus can you please name who was responsible & the name of his vessel.

     

Nearly lunchtime I'll leave you with a couple of silly naff jokes
A woman had just finished a first-aid course and was eager to try out her skills.
Coming out of a shop one day, she saw a crowd gathered round a man on the ground. She rushed over, got down and began to take his pulse.
Just then, a huge policeman tapped her on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, madam, do you realise I'm trying to arrest this man?"

A man walks into a pub and approaches the barman, 'Can I have a pint of Less, please?'
'I'm sorry sir, 'the barman replies, looking slightly puzzled, 'I've not come across that one before. Is it a spirit?'
'I've no idea, 'replies the guy, 'The thing is, I went to see my doctor last week and he told me that I should drink less.'

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen,



I know Blue can be a bit religious, so I asked him who he would advise the Pope to make the patron saint of emails.  Quich as a flash , he came back with St. Francis of a c.c.

Blue saw a parking inspector drowning so he immediately advised the Emergency Services.  He told me he hoped they came soon otherwise it would be the complete waste of a stamp.

Dr. Quack is called to Bowral hospital by a distraught nurse who had been preparing Blue for an examination.  Dr. Quack explains to Blue, “When the nurse asked you to strip to the waist, she meant from the neck downwards, not from the toes upwards”.

When he was in Primary school, Egghead asked Blue where he came from.  Never one to shirk his duties, Blue launched into a long lecture about human reproduction and the birds and the bees.  Egghead said, “ Wow, that beats what his dad told my friend Billy when he asked the same question.  He said he came from Moss Vale.”


Blue reckons the reason we had a great turnover of Prime Ministers this Century was they made decisions which the average Australian thought showed lack of judgement.  The puzzle now is to name the action which most Australians thought showed the greatest lack of judgement in the last decade.  1 10(6 4) 3 6 6

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Hint: in the last picture ditch the "S" and the "head"

Bonus questions:

1.   In what country was the person who made the decision born?

2.   Before he was made Prime Minister, what combination with another Cabinet member in a previous government was the name of a mid-20th Century comedy duo?

I'll post this and then have a look at your post.

[Ozzyjack]

I had no idea that William Blyth ended up in Australia.

Hi again, Pen

Who is William Blyth?

I think the answers to your bonus questions are

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2  Queen Elizabeth gave him the command of a fleet whose mission was to inspect the Spanish military preparations, intercept their supplies, attack the fleet and if possible the Spanish ports. To that end, the Queen put at hiss disposal four Royal Naval galleons: the Elizabeth Bonaventure, which was under his own command; Golden Lion, captained by William Burroughs; Rainbow, under Captain Bellingham; and Dreadnought under Captain Thomas Fenner. A further twenty merchantmen and armed pinnaces joined forces with the expedition.

[Hobbit]

I'm back Jack

Since 1840, William Blyth is renowned for producing handmade clay roof tiles, floor tiles, heritage service, fittings and garden pottery, flowerpots.  This is a company in Humberside.  Not to be confused with William Bligh who was captain of HMS Bounty   Sorry I suffered a momentary lapse of concentration!
   

You have earned maximum bonus points for my puzzle

Would the answer to your puzzle have anything to do with awarding a knighthood to a certain Greek gentleman?  Goes by the name of Philip?
I believe the politician who made the decision was born in Lambeth, London.
I think this might be the comedy duo


Going to find a large hole to hide in

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen,

I see you are not going to own up to be the one in the photo.

Full Marks on my puzzle.

   

Blue was reminiscing about how things were in the days before lockdown.  He once got pipped in a pub quiz.  The question was “Where do women mostly have curly hair”?  The other contestant said, “Africa” and won the prize.

He told me Sheila was decorating their house and went into Bunnings for a new door-knocker.  The sales assistant said, “Do you want a screw for that?”.  Sheila replied, “Certainly not, but I’ll give you a kiss and a cuddle for a can of paint?”

When Blue was saving up to ask sheila to marry him, he went down to Sydney to work on the docks.  He never had a single day’s sickness when he was there.  He always managed to stretch it out to a week or two


There is an idiom that described many of the subjects of our recent puzzles.  5 5 3 6

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Bonus Question: In what county of the the USA was the top picture taken?

[Hobbit]

Hi Jack

I couldn't possibly comment if that's me in the picture    I remember years ago when we had a school photograph taken the whole school used to form a semi-circle on the rugby pitch.  Pupils were in tiers with the biggest at the back standing on chairs with the youngest sat on the grass at the front. Teachers sitting on chairs at the front. There was always one boy who liked to be on the end & he'd run like the clappers behind & try to get to the other end before the camera panned round so he was in the picture twice

      

Sorry but your puzzle has me flummoxed   The only thing I can come up with is 'The ripple effect' but I'm sure that's not it.  I had a covid test at work this morning which involved a swab being pushed down my throat & up my nose.  I think they may have damaged my poor little grey cell   I can't guess at where the first picture is.  Perhaps one of our friends across the Pond can help out!  Talking of which I don't recall seeing A non-Amos on the Forum recently.  I do hope all is well.

My puzzle is an Arthur Conan Doyle novel.  Easy peasy   Word count is 1, 5, 2, 7.
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For your bonus please say how the book got it's name.  What was Conan Doyle's job at the time he wrote the book?

I'll leave you with a couple of naff jokes
A man and a giraffe walked into a bar. The man asked for a drink and one for the giraffe. They drank it and had another one, then another and another. The man got up and went to walk out, the giraffe tried to follow and fell over. The barman said don't leave that lying round here and the man said, it's not a lion, its a giraffe.

A guy walks into a bar, carrying a crocodile and a chicken. He sets them down on the stool next to him, and says to the (uncertain-looking) bartender "I'll have a Scotch and Soda." Then the crocodile says "And I'll have a Whiskey Sour." The (dumbfounded) bartender gasps "That's incredible I've never seen a crocodile that could talk!" And the guy says "He can't the chicken is a ventriloquist."

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen,

A quickie before I get back to bed after a trip down the hall.

Your Puzzle:  He was a doctor.  After having a practice in Plymouth with one of the his previous classmates that had problems, he opened his own practice in Southsea, Portsmouth.  It was not successful so while waiting for patients, he had plenty of time to practice writing. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "{Title of the book}": "There's the {coloured} thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."

My Puzzle; Here it is again with different pictures, the bonus question is changed to name the State in Australia.

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Must crash, Ontrac at 8. (11pm Thursday your time)

[Hobbit]

Hurrah Jack!!  Thanks for the revised clues - got it now   I wont say the answer just in case anybody else wants a crack at it!
I solved the bonus easily without any assistance from Ms Google   New South Wales
Top marks for my puzzle!

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen

Blue was temporarily stood down from his job because of the coronavirus situation.  He got a job in the meantime at the recycling factory squashing all the fizzy drink cans.  He says he finds it soda pressing.

He had tried for a job in an office. “Sorry, we don’t need much help here.”.  “That makes me ideal for the job”, said Blue.  “I’m not much help at all”.

He applied for another job and asked about the wages.  The manager said, “I’ll pay you $40 a day from today and after six months I’ll pay you $60 a day.  When would you like to start?”  “In six months”, said Blue

Then he got a job a lumberjack but they gave him the axe.



The puzzle today is a 1995 film in which the Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson  for four days in the 1960s.

3 7 2 7(3 2 3) 6(5 2)

The of    

In the tall picture, remember you are looking for the one described by 3 letters.

Bonus points:

Who plays the main characters?

Who directed the film?

[2dognight]

Hi Jack

I see your determined to get the name o a certain American county !

Carol

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Carol,

Actually, I have a confession to make. When I set the bonus question, I was in a hurry to get to bed and I assumed the area I was after had a monopoly on covered bridges.  Actually they have only six. Luckily the picture I used was one of them.

This article shows how wrong  I was.

[Hobbit]

Hi Jack

I'm having one of those days where I seem to be chasing my tail!  Time seems to be whizzing by & I've got nothing to show for it

That's a great puzzle  I must admit that Carol's post helped me a bit in solving it
The main characters are played by Meryl Streep & Clint Eastwood who also directed the film.

My puzzle is also a film 2 words. 9, 8.

Same questions!  For your bonus please name the stars of the film & who directed it.  An extra bonus point if you can say where was the story set & where was the film actually made!

    
It's stopped raining & the sun's come out so I'm going to have a quick walk before the next downpour!

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen

Full marks on my puzzle and your cartoons.

I got yours quickly without google but there was no way I could answer the bonus questions without google as I have never watched the film or read much about it.  Spoiler alert: The answer to the puzzle and the bonus questions are in the title, the first paragraph, and the fourth paragraph under the production heading in This Article.

As you have pointed my attention to one of the States in the USA, my puzzle is to name one of its top tourist attractions.  5 9(5 5) 6.

      

Bonus Question:  Although it is the largest in the USA, it is only the third largest in the world.  Name the top 2 and which country they are in.  Other forumites who have got the answers are invited to just name the countries at this stage.

To mangle MacArthur and Oates - "I shall return but I may be some time"

[Ozzyjack]

Hi Pen,

It being Saturday, you'll probably have a similar subject on your mind as me by the end of the day.  Does this give you a clue

     

Blue didn't ring today, so you get some more cartoons.